Victor HUGO – Photograph in business card format by Bertall.

Victor HUGO (1802.1885)

Photograph in business card format (cdv)

Albumen print laminated on thin cardboard, depicting Hugo, standing with crossed arms.

Circa 1865.

Photo of Charles Albert d'Arnoux, known as Bertall

Size: 6.5 x 10.3 cm.

Slight miter mark on the back.

Charles Albert d'Arnoux, known as Bertall (1820.1882) was one of the pioneers of photographic art. He collaborated with Hippolyte Bayard from 1855, then opening with him the Bayard and Bertall photography workshop at 15 bis rue de la Madeleine in Paris in the early 1860s and until 1866, when he set up on his own .